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Smarter Cities Or Bigger Brother? How the Race for Smart Cities Could Determine the Future of China, Democracy, and Privacy Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 47 Number 4 Symposium: Urban Intelligence and Article 2 the Emerging City 2020 Smarter Cities or Bigger Brother? How the Race for Smart Cities Could Determine the Future of China, Democracy, and Privacy John Wagner Givens Debra Lam Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Recommended Citation John Wagner Givens and Debra Lam, Smarter Cities or Bigger Brother? How the Race for Smart Cities Could Determine the Future of China, Democracy, and Privacy, 47 Fordham Urb. L.J. 829 (2020). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol47/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SMARTER CITIES OR BIGGER BROTHER? HOW THE RACE FOR SMART CITIES COULD DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF CHINA, DEMOCRACY, AND PRIVACY John Wagner Givens* & Debra Lam** Introduction ............................................................................................. 830 I. Smart Cities .......................................................................................... 831 A. The Rise of Smart Cities ........................................................ 833 B. The Overpromise of Smart Cities ......................................... 835 C. Smart City Skepticism ............................................................ 838 D. Privacy Challenges for Smart Cities ..................................... 844 II. China ................................................................................................... 846 A. City Brain ................................................................................ 851 B. Monitoring Muslims ................................................................ 858 C. Social Credit System ............................................................... 863 D. Other Applications of Facial Recognition Technology ..... 865 E. Lessons from the Chinese Case ............................................. 867 III. Democratic Alternatives to the China Model .............................. 869 A. Surveillance Intermediaries ................................................... 870 B. Europe ...................................................................................... 874 C. Can Democracies Compete with the PRC’s Smart City Technology? .......................................................................... 877 D. Battlegrounds for the Meaning of Smart Cities? ................ 879 * Associate Professor, School of Government and International Affairs, Kennesaw State University. Thank you to everyone involved in the 2019 Fordham Urban Law Journal Cooper–Walsh Colloquium as well as Heather Pincock for her helpful comments and support. ** Managing Director, Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation, Georgia Institute of Technology. Thank you to the Office of the Executive Vice President of Research at Georgia Tech and the Georgia Smart Partners: Georgia Power, Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), Association County Commissioners of Georgia, Georgia Centers for Innovation, Georgia Chamber, Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Georgia Municipal Association, Metro Atlanta Chamber, and Technology Association of Georgia, Georgia Planning Association, and the Global City Teams Challenge. 829 830 FORDHAM URB. L.J. [Vol. XLVII IV. Recommendations and the Way Forward ..................................... 880 Conclusion ............................................................................................... 881 INTRODUCTION Since at least the early twentieth century, when the emergence of the automobile saved cities from being buried under the manure produced by their horse-based transportation system, technologies have emerged to help solve the unique problems faced by rapidly growing cities.1 Yet, as with the automobile, no matter how rapid and seemingly miraculous a technological solution, it will create its own set of problems that need to be addressed. For a little over a decade, smart city technology has been promising to cure a wide variety of cities’ transportation, financial, environmental, and social ills.2 But unresolved concerns about smart city technology, especially relating to privacy, are increasingly delaying the development and implementation of these technologies in democracies. To explore the themes and issues outlined above, this Article takes a comparative approach to the challenges that smart cities face. Specifically, we compare how concerns about smart city technology play out in wealthy democracies3 and contrast this with the relatively unchallenged rollout of that technology in the People’s Republic of China. These wealthy democracies are further divided into the European Union, where government regulation is stronger, and North America, where smart cities have faced less regulation, but perhaps, as a result, more popular resistance.4 Part I of this Article reviews the rise of cities and smart city technology. We assess the (over)promise of the technology and 1. See Elizabeth Kolbert, Hosed, NEW YORKER (Nov. 9, 2009), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/16/hosed [https://perma.cc/9PSE-V88K]. 2. See Teena Maddox, Smart Cities: A Cheat Sheet, TECHREPUBLIC (July 16, 2018), https://www.techrepublic.com/article/smart-cities-the-smart-persons-guide/ [https://perma.cc/G5G6-KYFL]. 3. This focus on wealthy democracies is a product of where the leading companies selling smart city technology are currently based. See These Are the Top Ten Companies That Build Smart Cities, SMART CITY HUB (Apr. 5, 2017), https://smartcityhub.com/technology-innnovation/the-top-ten-companies-that-build-s mart-cities/ [https://perma.cc/8SET-H73X]. 4. See generally Mario Weber & Ivana Podnar Žarko, A Regulatory View on Smart City Services, 19 SENSORS (BASEL) 415, 416 (2019). See also Michael M. Losavio et al., The Internet of Things and the Smart City: Legal Challenges with Digital Forensics, Privacy, and Security, 1 SECURITY & PRIVACY 1, 6 (2018). 2020] SMARTER CITIES OR BIGGER BROTHER? 831 examine the increasing pushback and skepticism that smart city projects and related technology have attracted. In Part II, we turn our attention to the case of China, examining four different uses of smart city technology: Alibaba’s City Brain, the monitoring of Xinjiang, the social credit system, and other uses of facial recognition technology. Part II then draws overall lessons from these Chinese cases. Part III of this Article considers possibilities for improving the use, regulation, and development of smart city technology in wealthy democracies. First, we consider the important role surveillance intermediaries could play in protecting privacy. Second, we look at the European Union and its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Third, we ask whether it is, at this point, possible for companies based in democracies to catch up with the development of Chinese smart city technology. Fourth, we look at how and where competition for smart city technology could play out in the rest of the world. Part IV provides recommendations about a possible way forward in the development of smart cities that would protect privacy and engender public trust and support. I. SMART CITIES Rapid global urbanization driven by overall population increase and rural-to-urban migration is expected to reach 60 of the world’s population by 2030, and 68 by 2050.5 Across the world, urbanization has been closely tied with lower overall% poverty rates, higher educational levels, and higher% living standards. It is the main reason people choose to move to cities: the lure of higher-paying jobs and greater opportunities. McKinsey projects that the top 100 global cities by economic growth will contribute 35 of the world’s GDP growth from 2007 to 2025.6 Cities are seen as engines of progress, improved services, and technological advancement.% However, city development also produces unintended negative effects. For example, cities are major contributors to climate change. 5. U.N. DEP’T OF ECON. & SOC. AFFAIRS, POPULATION DIV., WORLD URBANIZATION PROSPECTS 2018: HIGHLIGHTS, at 5, U.N. Doc. ST/ESA/SER.A/421, Sales No. E19.XIII.6 (2019). 6. RICHARD DOBBS ET AL., MCKINSEY GLOB. INST., URBAN WORLD: MAPPING THE ECONOMIC POWER OF CITIES 1 (2011), https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Featured 20Insights/Urbanization/Ur ban 20world/MGI_urban_world_mapping_economic_power_of_cities_full_report.as hx [https://perma.cc/9M6G-8ZCF]. % % 832 FORDHAM URB. L.J. [Vol. XLVII While they house 55 of the world’s population7 on only 2 of the Earth’s surface, cities consume 78 of the world’s energy and produce more than %60 of the world’s greenhouse gases.%8 City residents’ reliance on fossil fuels to drive% their cars, heat their homes, and run their factories worsen% air and water quality and harm wildlife and its habitats.9 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 80 of urban inhabitants are exposed to levels of air pollution above WHO limits which, in turn, increases the risk of stroke, heart disease, and% other chronic and acute respiratory diseases especially for elderly, youth, and marginalized groups.10 Globally, urban areas have, on average, 50 less species richness11 than intact natural habitats.12 As Dr. Eric Strauss, executive director of the Center for Urban Resilience at %Loyola Marymount University-Los
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